82 LEGISLATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



UTAH. 

 .Laws of 1899, chap. 26, p. 42. 



Sec. 21. [Permits killing of mourning doves between July I and December 1, but 

 prohibits the robbing or destroying of nests, eggs or young.] 



Sec. 22. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, ensnare, net or entrap at any 

 time in any year any gull, owl, hawks, lark, whippoorwill, thrush, swallow, snow- 

 bird, robins or other insectivorous or song birds, except the English sparrow, or to 

 rob or destroy the nests,- eggs or young of any of said protected birds mentioned in 

 this section. 



Sec. 27. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act * * * shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten dollars. 



Sec 29. [It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to ship or cause to be 

 shipped out of the State, any of .the birds or any part thereof mentioned in this act.] 



Approved March 9, 1899. 



VERMONT. 

 Vermont Statutes, 1894, title 31, chap. 189, p. 829. 



Sec 4614. If a person shoots, or otherwise intentionally wounds, entraps, ensnares 

 or captures a wild or undomesticated bird, except quail, woodcock, wild duck, Wil- 

 son's or English snipe, ruffed grouse, wild goose, plover, pheasant, English partridge; 

 merganser, blue heron, bittern, loon, English sparrow, crow black bird, crow, jay, 

 or birds of prey, or if a person destroys the nest or eggs of any wild or undomesti- 

 cated birds, except the nest or eggs of a merganser, blue heron, bittern, loon, English 

 sparrow, crow black bird, crow, jay and birds of prey, he shall be fined five dollars 

 for each offense. 



Sec. 4613 (as amended November 4, 1898, Act 104, p. 81). [Provides for permits to 

 collect for scientific purposes as follows: "The fish and game commissioners may 

 commission persons, for a time specified, reserving a power of revocation, to take, 

 kill, capture and have in possession any species of birds other than domestic, and 

 the nests and eggs thereof, for scientific purposes only, but the number of such com- 

 missions in force at any one time shall not exceed fi ve. " ] 



VIRGINIA. l 

 Code, 1887, title 27, chap. 95, p. 520. 



Sec 2079. It shall be unlawful for any person * * * 



Third * * * at any time, to kill the turkey buzzard or black buzzard, or to 

 capture, for sale or transportation, or kill the mocking bird, or kill or capture the 

 brown thrush, cardinal or red bird, wood robin, blue bird, house martin, or starling, 

 or destroy their nests or 



Fifth * * * to shoot, or in any manner kill or destroy the bird known as the 

 gull or striker, before the first day of September, or take its eggs later in the season 

 than the twentieth of July.- 



, Sec. 2080. If any person violate any of the provisions of the preceding section, he 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, * * * the offender shall be fined ten 

 dollars for each offence and imprisoned in jail until the fine be paid, but not exceed- 

 ing thirty days. 



Sec. 2081. The two preceding sections shall not apply to the counties of Mecklen- 

 burg, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Sussex, Greenesville, Cumberland, Nottoway, Lunen- 

 burg, Amelia and Appomattox. * * * 



1 No attempt has been made to include the special county laws. 



